Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

A lot of people use a smiley face when they write letters. But it's this huge insane compulsion, like 'I'm happy! I swear!' I'm not buying it.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

A lot of broadcasting, I think, is doing a tremendous amount of preparation and trying to act like, 'Oh, this thought is just occurring to me right now' - and speaking sincerely.

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what they're saying, it's quite hard to find cracks.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity.

I'm just very good at pretending.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

I don't think there is a single character in 'The Graduate' that is not a phony, to one degree or another, except Benjamin and Elaine, and only in the scenes when they are alone together.

I don't like Drake as a person. He's just fake to me.

We're against hypocrisy, lies, bigotry, show business, insincerity, phonies, and fakers.

I have serious, serious problems with personas - with unauthentic individuals.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.

No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

I ain't the captain of the yacht, but I'm on the boat; I ain't acting what I'm not, knowing that I don't. You niggaz acting like you will, but I know you won't. Man, I read between the lines of the eyes of your brows, Your handshake ain't matchin your smile.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.